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poster Russian Holiday

Russian Holiday

89mn - Thriller, Crime, Drama

In this thriller, an American schoolteacher visits St. Petersburg, Russia and ends up entangled in a deadly plot to steal a valuable artifact.

poster Father Sergius

Father Sergius

112mn - History, Drama

The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Czar, so he then becomes a monk.

poster Kamarinskaja

Kamarinskaja

1mn - Documentary

Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.

poster The Bride

The Bride

90mn - Mystery, Horror, Thriller

When a young bride travels to her fiancé's rural ancestral home in Russia, she discovers an eerie family tradition involving ghost photography and possession. As she uncovers disturbing secrets about her …

poster A Revolutionary

A Revolutionary

In 1907, the Russian authorities learn that a revolutionary known as 'Granddad' is living in hiding with his brother. The revolutionary is soon arrested and sent to Siberia. After ten years of struggling …

poster Anniversary of the Revolution

Anniversary of the Revolution

122mn - Documentary, History

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph.

poster The Emperor of Russia's Arrival in Elsinore

The Emperor of Russia's Arrival in Elsinore

1mn - Documentary

Nikolai II (1868-1918), the last Russian czar, son of Alexander III and Dagmar. He had been in Denmark on vacation with his parents several times. The royal houses usually met in September to celebrate Qu…

Morozko

40mn - Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Based on the Russian fairy tale Father Frost.

poster The Dying Swan

The Dying Swan

After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enraptures a painter obsessed with portraying death genuinel…

poster The World and Its Woman

The World and Its Woman

A Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian prince. When the 1917 revolution overthrows the czar's government, the pair attempts to cross the icy steppes and…

poster Banda batki Knysha

Banda batki Knysha

Silent film set in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army liberated a small town, but a unit of White Russians is still operating in the suburbs. A group of Red Army officers are posing as a gang…

poster Daydreams

Daydreams

Sergei’s beloved wife Yelena has passed away, and the bereaved husband is inconsolable. He remains obsessed with pictures of Yelena and with a braid of her hair that he has saved. One day, while walking i…

1812

41mn - Drama, History

Made in 1912, this film has become known as one of the greatest pieces of pre-Soviet cinema. The silent film tells the story of the Patriotic war of 1812 when Napoleon attempted to invade Russia. This joi…

Mermaid

9mn - Fantasy, Drama

"Rusalka" or "Mermaid" based on Pushkin, an opera by Dargomizhsky, and other sources: A prince and a miller's daughter have been involved in a romance together, but now the prince tells her that he must b…

poster Hearts in Exile

Hearts in Exile

59mn - Drama, History, Romance

In Czarist Russia, attractive Anna Ivanovna has consecrated her life to work among Russia's persecuted poor. She dispenses food, medicine, and funds to the needy, from a busy charity headquarters. Two men…

poster Boyar Orsha

Boyar Orsha

9mn - History, Drama

Based on Lermontov's poem of the same name, Boyar Orsha (Peter Chardynin) leaves the service of Ivan the Terrible.

poster Princess Tarakanova

Princess Tarakanova

19mn - Drama, History

Russia, 1775. Count Orlov writes a letter to Empress Catherine II the Great in which he denounces Princess Tarakanova as a traitor and pretender to the throne.

Rukus

87mn - Drama, Animation, Fantasy

A hybrid of documentary and fiction, Rukus is a queer coming-of-age story set in the liminal spaces of furry conventions, southern punk houses, and virtual worlds.

poster The Last Tango

The Last Tango

10mn - Drama, Romance

The film is based on the words of a song performed by Iza Kremer in Odessa.

poster Glumov's Diary

Glumov's Diary

5mn - Fantasy, Comedy

Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape ex…

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